Letter: Nothing funny about U.S. debt

I chortled at Friday's editorial cartoon portraying John Boehner as a captive of the Tea Party. Then, I noticed a news piece that described China's downgrading of its credit rating for the United States. Immediately after President Barack Obama signed the legislation raising the federal debt limit, Dagong, one of China's four biggest credit rating companies, downgraded the local and foreign currency credit ratings of the United States to A- from A. That's a rating lower than Botswana. Maybe the Chinese know something that the vast majority of Americans don't.